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[–] 86 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Why don't they just use the eagles to fly the oil to Mordor America?

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  • [–] 59 points 6 months ago

    People just don't understand the scale of these global systems, which is understandable since the numbers are incomprehensible. They think what they see in daily life represents one cell of a giant organism, but its more like one atom.

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  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I have a better solution.
    Why not build a long city from Pickup point to Drop Off point,
    with two rows of 500 meter tall skyscrapers to shield Iranian drones from entering,
    and then have an oil pipeline go through it in the middle?

    I call it, 'the line'.

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    This one is more economic viable

    portal gun strait

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    [–] 33 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    A barrel of oil is about 160 litres, and the biggest liquid transporter trucks usually hold about 60000 litres. That's 375 barrels per truck.

    This ain't going to work.

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    [–] 29 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    look, we can totally do this. get your grandma's '97 corolla, throw a few barrels in the trunk and a few on the roof, and get driving. If it runs out of gas, just refine some of the oil and fill up! If it's due for an oil change, just throw some of the oil in!

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    [–] 26 points 6 months ago

    What if they set up a ramp in front of the mountains and get the boat going really really fast?

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    He didn't even suggest using blimps, fuckin amateur

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    Bro just bolt some gigantic quadcopter rotors onto the tankers like in the Avengers.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

    UAE has big money and likes megaprojects, have they started digging a channel between Ras Al-Khaimah and Zaghi? Some tidy profits if they can do it.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If these kingdoms had built a pipeline skirting the strait, I guess it would still have been susceptible to missile & drone attack, and a 500-mile long, deep-underground pipeline was out of the question.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    I know Saudi Arabia does have and east west pipeline that they can use to ship oil out and bypass the strait I just assume it doesnt have the capacity to match all the ships that usually take all the oil.

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    [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    Give me the gasolene and I'll spare your lives.

    Just walk away.

    I will give you safe passage in the wasteland...

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    What if we just renamed it gays of Hormuz, bingo world peace.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It would take over 1000 trucks to fill a medium sized tanker ship

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    🤣🤣🤣🤣

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